"serving the Lord with all lowliness of mind, and with tears, and amid trials that befell me through the plots of the Jews.

amid honor or dishonor, amid evil report and good report; as a deceiver and yet true;

Moreover, you began to follow the pattern I set you, and the Lord's also, receiving the word with joy in the Holy Spirit, although amid severe persecution.

For as the sun comes up with a burning heat, it withers the grass, and its flowers fall, and the grace of the fashion of it perishes; so also shall the rich man fade away amid his pursuits.